[Ranma/SM][FanFic] Sailor Ranko Tunnel Vision, Chapter 23
Bill Heineman
A Continuation of "Sailor Ranko" by Fire and "Twice in a Millennium"
by Kevin D. Hammel and acknowledging "Black Moon - Eclipse of the Sun"
by Arthur Hansen
By Bill Heineman
Ranma 1/2 is property of Rumiko Takahashi. Publication Rights are held
by Viz in The US and Shogakukan in Japan. Sailor Moon is property of
Naoko Takeuchi. Publication rights held by Kodansha Ltd. in Japan and
Mixx Entertainment in the US. Terminator characters created by James
Cameron. Other characters are owned by their respective owners. My
purpose is to honor these creators and their works. No infringement
intended.
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Sun was in agony, she teleported with Ami and twisted her bad arm. She
could feel the bullet fragments being forced out by the Senshi healing
magic. She bit her lip and used all her might to lay Ami on the
medical table. Mamoru was already sealed in a box in the storage room.
Sun didn't want to think about Ami being placed alongside him.
Sailor Uranus came to see what the loud groan was about. She saw Sun
sprawled out on the floor of sickbay. She was surprised to see Ami in
human form on the table. Sun was using all her effort to stay
conscious. She turned to look at Uranus, "Get Saturn here now!" Sun
squeezed her bandage to help deaden the pain. She fell down and hit
the floor.
Uranus froze. She got a good look at Ami and saw her neck was purple
and wasn't the right shape. She staggered back and ran to get Saturn.
The other Senshi beamed in. They ran into sickbay and stood in a
circle around Ami. Saturn gave a look of pure shock at seeing her
friend in this condition. The other Senshi gave looks of hope to each
other and said little prayers waiting for a miracle.
Saturn placed her hands on Ami's neck and the healing magic refused to
work. Saturn began to cry. She ran her hands on Ami's head, her heart
and her chest. Nothing worked. Saturn didn't want her friend to be
this way. Saturn kept trying again and again; she didn't want to give
up. Her friend was hanging on by a thread. She wanted to believe it.
She wanted a miracle.
Thirty minutes went by and nothing was accomplished. Sun woke up and
joined Mars and Jupiter and they sat in a little circle silently in
mourning. Venus and Moon stood by Ami holding her hands hoping that
she would awaken in any moment.
Io went to Moon, "It's over."
Moon turned to Io with an expression of anger, "It's NOT over! She
can't be dead! She just can't be!" Sailor Moon lost it. She fell to
her knees before Io and openly cried. "We are all supposed to be
together in the Crystal Millennium!" Venus and Saturn lowered their
heads and pulled away their hands. Everyone lowered their heads and
mourned.
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The single T-800 approached the home on the outskirts of Juuban. The
diary said that four Senshi lived at this address. One was listed as a
young girl. It went to the front door and knocked. "Candy gram for
Hotaru."
It waited and knocked again. It gently forced the door open. It
searched the house and found that it had not been occupied for over a
week. It found names and addresses of relatives in distance parts of
Japan. It will visit these people in due time.
It went to the garage area and found the cars that belonged to Haruka.
It found her motorcycle and examined it for traps. It found the keys
hanging on a hook in the kitchen and tried to start the bike. The bike
refused to start. The machine took an hour going through spare parts
and repaired the motorcycle. It filled the tank by siphoning gasoline
from the sports car and sped off to the Saotome's.
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The other Senshi were in the dining area with Kasumi collectively in
mourning. Saturn was devastated. No amount of effort she put into her
healing magic could undo what was done to her friend. Pluto could
still hear an occasional scream of anguish from Jupiter or Venus.
Pluto was cold as ice. She took a deep breath and entered sickbay.
Pluto was alone with Ami. She gently touched Ami's head with her
scepter. As before with Mamoru, she wanted to try to preserve the
memories of those who had fallen. When it was time for them to be
reborn, it would befall her or the felines to help revive the memories
of their past lives.
She hated this part. It was like in the Silver Millennium when Queen
Beryl destroyed the moon kingdom. It took over one thousand years for
the Senshi to be a complete team. Now, they are no longer whole again.
Pluto thought, "This job sucks."
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The T-800 approached a small apartment. The name on the door read 'Mr.
and Mrs. Saotome'. The nameplate didn't compute. There were supposed
to be two females at this residence yet the word 'Mr.' was listed. It
assumed that this might have been a pseudonym used to throw off
visitors. It knocked. In a female voice it said, "Avon calling."
As before, it forced open the door and found an apartment that
appeared to have been unused for some time. Dust and broken glass were
everywhere. Only an area in the bedroom near the dresser drawer seemed
to have been disturbed. It searched the home and found some papers
that described a dojo in Nerima. This could have been the current
location of the Saotomes. It checked the old dust covered mail on the
floor near the mail slot and found an unopened letter.
The letter from Shampoo read...
To darling Ranma,
I miss you. Why you no want Shampoo? I want you come to Cat Cafe.
Please I want speak with you. My honor at stake. You visit. You have
place here.
Wo ai ni, (I love you),
Shampoo
The machine checked maps of Japan. The return address was in a
location in Nerima. It would go there to see if Mr. Shampoo knew
anything of value. Ms. Ranma Saotome had a place there. It was likely
that she could be found there.
The terminator got back on the motorcycle. It was bad to the bone. It
checked its shotgun, UZI and Glock 34 with laser sight. It sped off to
Nerima.
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The T-800 found the remains of the Cat Cafe. The building was only
about two meters high. The rest was blown away by the blast. It easily
entered the cafe. The T-800 searched the area but found very little of
value. Everything was burnt to a crisp or broken trash. It found a
staircase filled with debris. It changed its vision to infrared and
saw three heat signatures under the ground. One was a small signature,
about the size of a child. The other two were adults. One of those
people could be Mr. Shampoo. It began to dig out the basement
stairway.
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Shampoo was scared. They have been in the storeroom for over a week.
The flashlight long ago ran out and Cologne refused to give Mousse the
replacement set of batteries. Cologne had no idea how long they would
have to stay down in the storeroom. She was concerned that Mousse
would waste the batteries trying to woo Shampoo.
Mousse was overjoyed that he was able to spend so much time in the
company of Shampoo. Shampoo however kept stabbing Mousse's feelings in
the heart by always pining for Ranma. Mousse was heartbroken when he
heard Shampoo calling out for Ranma in her sleep. Mousse was
frustrated. He thought, "Even if that creep is dead, she still wants
him."
There was a scraping sound at the door. Cologne awoke from her
meditation and approached the door. She put her ear to the door and
listened. She retreated back to Shampoo and held her granddaughter's
mouth. "Shampoo, be quiet." She then used her walking stick to silence
Mousse by touching his neck and knocked him out. She pulled the
batteries from her hiding place and fixed the flashlight.
The scraping got louder. Then the sound became digging. The sound
became a loud sound of a shovel like tool hitting the door. Cologne
felt danger coming from behind the door. "Quiet child." She told her
granddaughter again.
The digging from behind the door stopped. The doorknob started to
jiggle. The door was locked. A knock came at the door. "This is the
police. Is anyone alive in there?"
Shampoo gave a little jump and tried to giggle in joy. She thought
they were being rescued. Cologne grabbed Shampoo and held her mouth
tight to keep her quiet. Cologne was worried. She knew this person
would force his way in, and her danger sense was going into overdrive.
The door shook. The door was being forced open but it held. The door
was made of thin steel plates on a solid wood door. The door shook
violently after a loud bang caused by a kick. Mousse woke up from all
the noise and turned to look at the door. "What's going on?"
Cologne was angry at the sound that Mousse made. It didn't matter
since the intruder was coming in no matter what. "Shampoo! Mousse!
Whoever is coming is not friendly." All three took defensive poses.
The door was kicked down. A man blocked the door. It stood there
looking at the three. It scanned them. None of them matched the girls
it was looking for. "I am looking for Ranma Saotome."
Shampoo turned cold and then angry. "Why you want husband?"
Husband? It stopped for a moment as it tried to reason this out. Ranma
is male. This woman in front of it must have been Akane Saotome. It
turned to Cologne, "Old woman, identify."
Cologne jumped forward and planted a kick in the terminator's chest.
She bounced off and fell to the floor clutching her foot. "OW! Be
careful, he's not human!"
The machine pulled out an UZI 9mm submachine gun. It aimed it at
Cologne. Mousse threw a clawed chain and yanked the gun away from the
machine before it had a chance to pull back the action. The terminator
pulled out a shotgun. Mousse sent another chain and disarmed it again.
The machine started to walk into the room straight to Mousse.
Mousse jumped in front of Shampoo. "You will not hurt my love!" Mousse
charged and used a hidden blade and started to slice at the machines
skin. He cut and punched but the machine simply acted as if he wasn't
doing anything to it at all. The machine punched Mousse and flung him
into a wall.
The terminator faced Shampoo who raised her battle aura. "Akane
Saotome, Identify." Shampoo charged at the mention of that hated name
and struck the machines head with her bonbori. The clubs bounced off
and it tried to grab Shampoo's arm. Shampoo was too fast and started a
series of quick kicks to throw her opponent off balance. She only
landed three blows before she jumped back. She underestimated the
weight and body mass of this foe. She had to rethink her attack.
The machine was pulling up pictures of Akane Saotome in its database
and found no file. It found a file for Akane Tendo and this girl
before it looked nothing like her. It concluded that Akane Tendo was
Sailor Io and this girl was the wife of Ranma Saotome. The man next to
her was Ranma Saotome since he called her his love.
Cologne felt the danger level increase beyond words. "Shampoo! Don't
get near it! Run!" She used all her might and threw her walking stick
to trip the terminator's feet as it walked towards Shampoo. It almost
tripped but its brute strength was able to snap the stick in two.
Shampoo leapt to the side, did a flip and ran out the door. The
terminator shifted its attention to Mousse. It struck with a clenched
fist at Mousse's head but it missed. It looked around for its target
and found a duck sitting in its place.
Cologne held the small water bottle she squirted at Mousse. "You owe
me duck-boy." The machine pulled back and could not accept the duck
was Mousse. The duck started to bite the terminator's leg and it
kicked the duck into the wall crushing his ribcage.
The machine scanned the room. Ranma Saotome had escaped. It turned to
the doorway and ran out looking for Akane. As the machine was running
out the door, it grabbed a large can of broth and threw it at Cologne.
She was stunned and was smashed against the wall. It wanted no one to
follow it. It paused to pick up its weapons and ran up the stairs.
Shampoo was gawking at the destruction of the cafe. She heard the can
hit Cologne and realized that she had to make a break for it. She ran
out into the street and ran as far as she could away from home. The
machine was in hot pursuit.
It saw Shampoo leap onto a nearby pile of debris and jump at high
speed. It got on the motorcycle and gave chase.
It drove at over one hundred and twenty kilometers per hour and never
lost control. Shampoo saw that it was catching up to her so she
started darting in random directions to lose it.
Shampoo tried every trick she could think of to ditch her pursuer. She
doubled back, she jumped through ruined buildings, and she even ran
into the drainage ditch. The machine was always just right behind her.
It pulled out its shotgun and started firing it at Shampoo. She was
able to barely dodge the blasts with ki jumps and precisely timed
dodges behind concrete barriers. She was getting tired and this guy
showed no hint of giving up. Shampoo saw Furinkan High School ahead
and thought the forest near it would be great cover. She ran for it.
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Sailor Sun's Senshi sense kicked it. She could feel something was
wrong on Earth. She heard a name being called from a familiar voice.
"Ranma! Ranma! Save me!"
Everyone at the table were either weeping for Mercury or just sitting
comatose. Sun was sitting with her head down on the table when she
suddenly sat up straight and gave a distant look. Sailor Io saw that
Sun had stiffened. Io asked, "What's wrong?"
"Shampoo. She's in trouble. I can feel it." Sun stared into space.
Io thought about Shampoo and felt the same feeling. She knew what they
have to do. She slid next to Sun and held her waist. "Ready when you
are."
Sun looked at her arm. It had mostly healed. It would take another
hour to fully heal but it was good enough for now. "Let's go."
The two Senshi vanished. A surprised Sailor Moon stood up and asked,
"Where did they run off to?"
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The two Senshi appeared in the baseball field of Furinkan High School.
Sun saw that Shampoo was heading this way. The two spread out and
waited for Shampoo to arrive.
In a moment, a tired Amazon leapt off of a large pile of debris and
ran straight through the field. She saw the Senshi and ran toward
them. "Help! He's after me!"
Shampoo ran past Sun and stood behind them. "Big ugly man want kill
Ranma! Help fight?"
The two got wide eyed at that remark. They both turned to where a
motorcycle engine sound was coming from. Sun without looking at Io
asked, "I can dodge gunfire, can you?"
Io smirked at Sun's wound, "Better than you."
Sun looked at her arm, "Lucky shot."
The machine rode toward the field and gunned the motorcycle's engine.
It popped the front wheel up and crashed through the bent chain link
fence and rolled at high speed down the embankment. It made a beeline
towards Shampoo and slowed down. It scanned the Senshi and saw that
these matched Sun and Io. It produced the Uzi and fired it at Sun.
Sun jumped to the side and rolled on the ground. She gave a yelp of
pain from her old wound. Io fired a Lava Blast at the motorcycle
blowing it to pieces. The machine rolled on the ground and the gun
flew out of its hand.
Io saw where the thing landed and fired Lava Blast again to finish the
job. She shattered the machines legs and set it on fire. She ran to
aid Sun.
"Oh man." Was all Sun could say. She underestimated how much of her
wound was actually healed. She held her bandage tight to stop the
throbbing and soften the pain.
"Thank you Senshi." Shampoo made a little bow. Io and Sun giggled a
little in the fact that Shampoo didn't recognized who they were. Sun
liked Shampoo as a friend and had deep respect for her martial arts
skill. Sun was glad that Shampoo wasn't going to drag her off to a
wedding chapel. Shampoo innocently asked, "I have favor to ask. Can
you take me to Ranma?" Sun drooped, maybe she was going to drag her
off to get married.
Sun groaned, she would bluff, "I don't know who Ranma is." Sun looked
at the burning terminator and got a bad feeling. "Let's get out of
here."
Io had the feeling too, she turned to see the terminator was walking
rapidly only using its arms for locomotion. It was the strangest thing
that the three had ever seen. The machine was missing everything below
the waist and was on fire balancing itself on the arms. It was moving
back and forth in an attempt to approach them without giving them a
clear shot.
"Oh no you don't!" Io fired Lava Blast again but the machine dodged it
and jumped towards Sailor Sun. Sun rolled to the side ignoring the
pain in her arm. She needed to focus for a moment to teleport. It was
difficult to focus with a flaming half man trying to jump you.
Shampoo threw a bonbori at the flaming thing that caused the skin to
fly off exposing the metal underneath. Shampoo screamed at the sight
before her. The machine took the advantage and grabbed her and held
her throat.
Io wanted to blast the thing but couldn't since Shampoo was in its
grasp. She stood her ground.
"Where is Ranma Saotome?" The machine demanded from Shampoo.
"I don't know!" Shampoo gasped.
"Tell me where is Ranma Saotome. NOW!" It tightened its grip.
Sailor Sun stood up. "You want Ranma Saotome?"
The machine turned to look at Sun. "Give the location of Ranma Saotome
or I will kill her."
Io saw what Sun was going to do. "Don't do it!"
"I have your word. If I produce Ranma Saotome, you will release
Shampoo unharmed." Sun ordered.
The machine was confused. It checked its database and found Xian Pu
was a match for the girl before it. The girl was not Akane Tendo. It
turned its metal skull and uttered, "You have my word."
Io held her hands in a pleading gesture, "Sun... Don't."
Sun changed to Ranko. She was wearing her red chinese shirt and black
pants. "I am Ranma Saotome."
The machine was even more confused. The clothes changing before it
didn't make logical sense. The diary did associate Sailor Sun with
Ranma Saotome. The man in the basement was not Ranma Saotome. That was
proof enough. "Come closer."
Shampoo was wide eyed at Ranko was standing there. She was overjoyed
that her beloved was going to rescue her. She looked at the machine
holding her and realized that it was planning to kill Ranma. "Ranma!
Get away."
"Release Shampoo first." Ranko demanded as she took a step forward.
She glanced at Io who was standing ready to blow the machine to bits.
It snapped Shampoo's neck and released her. It charged Ranko. Ranko
made a high ki jump which took the machine by surprise. It had
calculated that its charge was inescapable. It calculated wrong. "Lava
Blast!" Io sent a wad of lava at the machine ripping off on arm. It
still kept moving.
Ranko landed nearby, ignoring her pain she sent a ki blast, "Moko
Takabisha" and blew the torso into tiny pieces with the head flying
into the air.
Both Ranko and Io had to take a deep breath. They examined the machine
parts and were convinced that it wasn't going to get up again.
They went over to Shampoo. Ranko took it hard. Shampoo was dead. Ranko
couldn't handle this. She was losing too many friends to these robots.
She buried her hands into her face and silently screamed.
Io sat next to the distraught Ranko. "There was nothing you could have
done." She held her female husband and looked down at Shampoo.
"That thing had no honor. It didn't know the meaning of honor!" Ranko
screamed. "It promised that it wouldn't hurt her." She clenched her
fists and opened them again. "I've never had an opponent that had no
honor like this."
Ranko's soul filled with pure fury. She started to breath heavily and
slowly shook her head from side to side in deep emotion. Images of
everyone she knew who had suffered flashed though her head, Kasumi,
Soun, Nabiki, and Konatsu. She vowed, "You bastards killed my mother.
You killed Ukyou. You killed Ami. Now you killed Shampoo." She paused
and held her fist tight, "I'm going to kill you. I'm going to make
sure you pay for what you have done."
Ranko slowly stood up and glanced around to see if anyone was around.
She transformed back in to Sailor Sun. She went over to the head of
the terminator and picked it up. A fierce aura of fire burned around
her as she stared in the dead eyes of the metal skull. Like Sailor
Moon so many times in the past, Sun made her speech, "This is our
world. You shall not ruin it. There is no room in it for those without
honor. By the power of our life giving Sun, I will punish you!"
With the power of her fury and her Senshi magic, she crushed the skull
in her hand.
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Sailor Sun beamed to the Cat Cafe. She surveyed the damage and sighed.
She held the lifeless body of Shampoo in her arms. "Why did you have
to get involved in this?" She found the stairway to the basement and
slowly walked down.
Cologne was sitting at the bottom already in mourning. She already
knew what happened. Mousse's unconscious duck body lay in a corner.
Cologne didn't want him to make a scene.
Cologne bowed, "Thank you for bringing her home Sailor Senshi."
Sun gently placed her body down. "Please forgive me, I couldn't save
her. She fought bravely. She died with honor. She gave honor to the
Amazon tribe." Sun made a gentle bow and turned to leave.
Cologne was a little suspicious. How did she know Shampoo was an
Amazon? "What is your name?"
Sun stopped. She turned around and gazed at Colognes eyes. "I am
Sailor Sun."
"Did you know Shampoo?" Cologne pried.
Sun didn't want to lie. So she bowed her head and turned and slowly
walked up the stairs.
Io was waiting for her upstairs. She ran from Furinkan. Sun embraced
Io and the two of them teleported to the space station.
Cologne looked at her granddaughter. "Why?" She closed her eyes and
thought about how she was going to tell Mousse.
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"REPORT: TERMINATION ORDER #1203 RANMA SAOTOME FAILED."
"COMMAND: INVADE JAPAN. NO SURVIVORS."
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Author's Notes: Things are now going to go ballistic,
Just so you know, there are 27 chapters, a prologue and an epilogue
planned. This is a huge story.
This story would not exist without the inspiration I got from "Sailor
Ranko" by Fire and "Twice in a Millennium" by Kevin D. Hammel
Additional public and private C&C welcomed!
Bill Heineman
October 21, 2002
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bur...@contrabandent.com
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